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...week long monster C124 and C-130 transports, the white star of the U.S. Air Force emblazoned on their flanks, lumbered down onto Formosan airfields. Tent cities sprang up along roadsides. Crated jet engines were stacked in banana groves; laborers toiled night and day to extend hangars left behind by the Japanese in World War II. The U.S. was staging the biggest military buildup since the Korean...
...minute Soviet movie with ballet-music background. The Russians had given the impression that they had built no nuclear power plant except the small (5,000 kw.) job they completed in 1954, but the film showed a massive building in an unnamed Siberian town. Inside was a monster reactor yielding 100,000 kw. of electricity. Five more like it under construction will make the plant the world's biggest. General consensus was that the Russians, put deep in the shade by the U.S. technical exhibit, made the late announcement-by-inovie as a Sputnik-like surprise...
...Class of '33, first to spend its freshman year in the Yard, turned out for the largest reunion in College history, and got a special treat. Its members saw the first public exhibition of the Kronosaurus sea monster, skeleton of what was once the largest flesh-eating reptile in the ocean. There were also cocktails, a day at the Essex County Club, panels on education, and the Yale baseball game...
...into Quemoy's south coast. At 1:30 the bowlip slammed down, revealing a ghostly white beach. Communist shells were pounding over. We ran for it, and came smack up against barbed wire. Ducking into a bunker, we watched the second landing barge glide by like a sea monster. The third landing craft, carrying a group of U.S. military assistance advisory personnel, tore its bottom on an underwater barricade, and the U.S. officers, their gear lost, slogged ashore through neck-deep water...
Speeches & Exhibits. The delegates came loaded with 2,300 scientific papers, 600 of which they were to present orally at five parallel series of meetings, with often baffled translators trying to deliver the highly technical texts in four languages. Along with this scientific five-ring circus ran two monster exhibitions, technical and commercial. The U.S. technical exhibit, which many visitors consider a triumph, and much better than the U.S. effort at the Brussels World's Fair, is staffed by white-coated scientists and 50 attractive, multilingual girls, who were put through a three-week crash course in basic nucleonics...